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Hey all, it's been a while since I have posted. Some of you may have seen my Astrophotography hobby thread (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/astrophotography-the-rosette-nebula.729480/) But I also like doing woodworking as a hobby - I'm sure others here do also so post 'em up. 🙂 Anyway, my...

Astrophotography is another one of my hobbies. The Rosette Nebula is located about 5200 Light Years from Earth and is about 130 Light Years in diameter. I took this data back in January of 2022 but I just got around to spending some time processing the data and pulling it all together. I used...

My flying hobby is getting too expensive these days with $6+ gas, so that's why I decided to get into another hobby. I decided on wood working - specifically wood turning. I'm 66 and retired, the last time I turned wood was back in high school in '74 - I enjoyed it but that was the last time I...

I got four days of imaging in without clouds or Moon! I imaged IC405 (The Flaming Star Nebula) in narrowband SHO. IC405 is both an emission and a reflection nebula and is located about 1500 light years from Earth. I used my ED127-FCD100 telescope with a .7 focal reducer at a 666mm focal length...

But I finally got a chance to set up and I'll take some images tonight. I'm targeting NGC 1491 the 'Fossil Footprint' nebula and I'll update this thread when I get some of images processed... :) Here are a couple of images I took last year: NGC281 he 'Pacman Nebula' IC 1396 the 'Elephant Trunk'